Speaker: Sameer Farooqui is a Systems Architect at Hortonworks who specializes in designing custom use cases for Hadoop. Previously Mr. Farooqui was responsible for creating proof of concept prototypes using Cassandra, NoSQL and Amazon Cloud Computing at one of the big 5 consulting firms. Sameer also has five years of experience at Symantec where he deployed Veritas Clustering and Storage Foundation solutions to Fortune 500 and government clients.

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A lot of really good information about HDFS core, rack awareness, replication, heartbeats/communication, balancer, read/write pipelines were all neatly explained. I liked the proposed roadmap for Hadoop 2. Federation seems to need a lot more thought. Thanks Sameer and to Jason/PulsePoint for the upscale pizza.